TooMuchBlue

My collection of rants and raves about technology, my kids and family, social/cultural phenomena, and inconsistencies in the media and politics.

2006-06-13

Caught ya!

Remember all my email addresses? I was skimming through my junk mail folder and found this gem:

From - Tue Jun 13 06:54:41 2006
...
Received: from awv106.internetdsl.tpnet.pl
  (HELO PLACE1) (83.18.73.106)
  by shell.lasthome.net with SMTP; 
  13 Jun 2006 09:38:04 -0000
Message-ID: <42445177683384.70346F6FA4@26W3D>
...
To: <devnull@toomuchblue.com>
Subject: great gain important letter
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:37:48 +0200

If you remember from my previous message, "devnull" was the only real email address I posted. This spam used what is becoming a standard format for spam: one address is chosen to be listed as the "To" address, and all other addresses from the same domain are BCC'd. I received the message because it was also sent to one of my real email addresses.

So, in the space of 39 days, my site has been harvested for email addresses. Actually, it's probably much less than that - it's likely that other spam I've received has random-selected a different address for the top line.

I'm working with the guy who hosts my site on dates to move to a different server, which has more current spam-filtering rules. That would be a welcome relief — I am now receiving about 40 spam items a day, mostly through a single ticket entered into a publicly accessible Bugzilla install.

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